Overview

• The justices ordered Louisiana v. Callais reheard and set reargument for Oct. 15.
• The Court directed briefing on whether intentionally drawing a Black-majority district to comply with the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional.
• The case began as a challenge alleging a racial gerrymander in Louisiana’s remedial map that added a second majority-Black district after a vote-dilution finding.
• Legal analysts caution that the conservative supermajority could use the case to narrow or effectively gut Section 2’s vote-dilution protections.
• Historical arguments highlighted in recent analysis say the Fifteenth Amendment’s text and Reconstruction-era history support race-conscious measures, while opponents invoke colorblind equal-protection claims.